Posted on 01/25/2016 9:35:09 PM PST by Windflier
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This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.
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Thanks, and let 'er rip!
Windy
Like beans added to chili. They're just filler.
Now that'll stir the hornet's nest.
My family hates that.
I suspect they get counted, but you'd have to ask DoughtyOne to know for sure.
Dittos.
At best, there are maybe four candidates with any hope of winning the nomination.
I've wondered that myself.
How 'bout it, Doughty. Can we ping our lists to the caucus threads?
Thanks again for your work on making that links chart!
I would rather folks invite some of their close friends.
I don’t mind pinging, but massive ping lists, not so much.
Hardly anyone is doing it (I think one person did), and I’d rather not get that started in a big way.
The other day I told someone else it was sort of like busing people in, and I admittedly used that as an example why it was okay. Later on, I looked back and thought that was wrong.
Give a person or two a lift to the polls, but please don’t bus in people.
Thanks.
D1
Nice...
Handy chart! Thank you.
Gotcha. I kinda remembered you saying something like that when you first started the caucus, but I wasn't sure.
Will do.
If I were to ping my list, you'd get a mix of supporters showing up. It's not like I'd be getting out the vote for my guy alone. There are plenty of Cruz and Trump supporters in that mix.
I had thought of that too, and it’s a reasoned point.
I go out and try to drumb up votes, but I want it done so that it doesn’t bias the vote.
It wouldn’t be good if Trump folks pinged big lists and trashed Cruz that way. Vise versa wouldn’t be good either.
Folks who are motivated to vote, I don’t care who for, are the ones who’ll find the thread and act on it.
That’s my goal.
The Constitution now says whatever the hell five out of nine Supreme Court Justices want it to say. IMHO, this is the primary issue in the election next year.
Four Justices will be over 80 years old next year (Kennedy, Scalia, Ginsburg and Breyer). Of the remaining five Justices, two are young far left-wing Obama appointees who will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years (Sotomayor and Kagan), two are reliable conservatives (Thomas and Alito) and the other is a flipper (Roberts).
I am betting that Obama will get to replace at least one of the octogenarian Justices (Ginsburg) and possibly two (Breyer) before he leave office. Ginsburg will step down immediately after the current Court term and if at least a couple of RINOs join with the Democrats to confirm Obama’s far left-wing replacement then Breyer will announce his retirement so that Obama will get to pick his far left-wing replacement as well. That would leave only two octogenarian Justices (Scalia and Kennedy) for the next President to replace, and four young, reliable far left-wing Justices firmly planted on the Court.
If any three of the four octogenarian Justices are replaced with liberals then a far left-wing oligarchy of Supreme Court Justices will rule over every aspect of our lives for the next generation to come. Say goodbye to the Second Amendment, free speech, and every other right that is currently hanging on by a 5 to 4 thread.
On the other hand, if any three of the octogenarians are replaced with strict construction conservatives, then they can join with Thomas and Alito and reverse Roe, homosexual marriage, Obamacare, and every other liberal Supreme Court decree over the past 40 years.
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